Character of Colour: Ruby Martinez | On My Block

Today’s Character of Colour of the Day is everyone’s favourite Rubén Martinez from On My Block on Netflix.

Ruby is a brilliant Mexican-American high schooler portrayed by Dominican-America Actor Jason Genao.

Ruby is cute, charismatic, type A and comfortable with himself enough to wear makeup for the girl he loves.

If you haven’t seen the show, you need too! It’s a PoC majority cast, deals with a lot of hard topics (gang warfare, immigration, police violence, PTSD, etc.) and has a fantastic cast of young Actors of Colour.

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